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San Francisco dance troupe Capacitor teaches balance and movement on a sculpture for a Trails and Vistas community dance workshop at InnerRhythms Dance Studio. Courtesy photo

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Capacitor

Sept. 11 and 12

Part Cirque du Soleil, part Burning Man, part contemporary dance, Capacitor is a dance troupe for the modern age. The San Francisco–based group blends acrobatics and new circus with innovative costumes and props that reflect the troupe’s obsession with the mechanics of the human body and machines that propel the body through space.

The dance company, which has performed in such strange places as a strangler fig tree in Costa Rica and underwater, was a natural fit for Trails & Vistas, the annual art hike that this year takes place in Squaw Valley Sept. 11 and 12.

“We invite audiences to think about the natural world,” Jodi Lomask, dancer and Capacitor founder, wrote in an email. “As we stretch our minds to understand the way of things through the lens of science, we open new channels for creative excitement. This excitement keeps us innovating and from creating the same show over and over again. It is also contagious.”

Capacitor will use Shirley Canyon’s natural environment as their props, dancing in a creek bed, on lattice roots, and on granite rocks. Of course, the dancers will also be using one of their unique sculptural elements in their performance as well.

Last month, Capacitor helped teach community members about dancing with sculpture. The dance company held a free community workshop at the InnerRhythms dance studio in Truckee. Around 14 people attended, from age 7 to adult.
Capacitor’s imaginative technique also fits in well with this year’s Trails and Vistas’ theme of “If Dreams Were Clouds.”

“The theme is very broad,” said Nancy Tieken Lopez, executive director. “It could be fantasy, or light and airy and beautiful, just like we all have different dreams.”

Trails & Vistas invites you to come dream with Capacitor.

~ Melissa Siig

Capacitor performs both Sept. 11 and 12. Tickets available at trailsandvistas.org or at the Truckee-Donner Chamber of Commerce, (530) 587-2757. $25/adults, $10/children (age 4 and under is free)